Developing and maintaining a secure and equitable water future underpins prosperity and peace for all. The relationship also works in the opposite direction, as poverty and inequality, social tensions,
Senate Republicans effectively killed the $171 billion farm bill, blocking the Democratic measure for this session. The wide-ranging bill, which covers food stamps, rural development, and
The US has kept out, voluntary organisations are not uncritical but for once scientists and bureaucrats seen reasonably happy. This goes for a month old international treaty which aims at sustainable
Andhra pradesh Rythu Sangham, the state's farmers organisation, has opposed any move by the government to allow cultivation of Bt
Adopting strict organic farming methods can be reliable way out from the crisis that the cashew farmers are facing now in the wake of the falling prices of their produce and the extreme competitive
Seven cattle of the Shiv Gaushala have died in past two days due to the foot-and-mouth disease under the Sihani Gate police station in Ghaziabad. The veterinary doctor of the areas has not paid any
The continuing spate of suicides among farmers in Karnataka is a manifestation in the most brutal manner of the increasingly volatile socio-economic dynamics of the agriculture sector in contemporary
The venture, called Threemile Canyon Farms, near Boardmen Oregon, recently began operating one of the biggest agricultural operations in the U.S. The effort calls for milking up to 15000 dairy cows,
Next September the 1996 farm bill the Freedom to Farm Act expires. It has been a failure in almost every respect. It promised to reform a system of federal farm subsidies that had grown equitable
Agriculture is under rapid transformation the world over even as it is growing increasingly technology intensive, said the Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Ajit Singh, at the 38th Annual Session
The Society for Preservation of Environment and Quality of Life (SPEQL), which has pioneered the development of vermiculture here from the biomass of municipal solid waste, is selling vermin compost,
